Comparo: Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R vs MV Agusta F4

A few months ago I met a motorcycle I haven’t been able to get out of my head. To date, nothing has come close to offering the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R’s combination of reasonable price, superlative performance and general slow-speed ease of riding. The Japanese Ninja is so damn good that we were really curious to see what it was like against a similarly specced, exotic European machine.

Unfortunately, it’s really hard to get bikes of such pedigree to test, so when MV Agusta called to say the F4 R was available, we jumped...